1.8.16 (forthcoming)

roslisp:
- Made persistent services thread save.
- Made persistent services more robust against interruptions.

1.8.15 (2012-07-16)

xmlrpcpp: fixed xmlrpc to handle chunked writing to socket well (when setting parameters way larger than 100k)
rostopic: fixed sleep in rostopic under windows <<Ticket(ros 4009)>>
rosbag, rosmsg, rosgraph, rospy, rosservice: modified Python code to also be compatible with 3.x <<Ticket(ros 3949)>>
roslisp:
- Fixed indentation
- Fixed condition type in service request error

roslaunch: fixed roslaunch starting remote nodes with correct ROS master <<Ticket(ros 3990)>>
rosnode: improved output of rosnode info <<Ticket(ros 3995)>>
rospy: fixed UnicodeDecodeError for service proxies <<Ticket(ros 3998)>>
topic_tools: added missing install for mux_* scripts <<Ticket(ros 3999)>>
roscpp: fixed logging macro overlaying variables passed in from user code <<Ticket(ros 4000)>>
roslisp: explicitly close the service socket stream, exported the symbol RECONNECT

Internal restructuring to be in line with Catkin changes (converted stack.yaml back to stack.xml, restructured dependencies, etc.)
roscpp/rospy: added warning when ROS_IP or ROS_HOSTNAME is an empty string <<Ticket(ros 3981)>>

roscpp:
- fixed conversion warnings <<Ticket(ros 3930)>>
roslisp:
- added ROS_PACAKGE_PATH to ASDF search to make non-catkin source packages work.
- fixed generation of roslisp wrapper scripts to not use ROS_ROOT.
rosgraph:
- fixed looking up node <<Ticket(ros 3946)>>
- fixed empty inbound/outbound output <<Ticket(ros 3947)>>
Windows:
- fixed usage of unix-only attribute <<Ticket(ros 3939)>>
- fixed string conversion in rosout for windows <<Ticket(ros 3943)>>
- added declspecs for topic tools for windows <<Ticket(ros 3957)>>

rospy: need internal poller to detect dead sockets <<Ticket(ros 3808)>>
rossrv: fix md5 command <<Ticket(ros 3916)>>
roslaunch:
- Bug fix to example-params.launch
- Sort parameters in startup display for easier reading <<Ticket(ros 3905)>>
roslisp: added persistent services

rosbag: Added missing install targets for rosbag scripts <<Ticket(ros 3908)>>
rostopic: bug fix for prefix matching in rostopic echo if multiple possible matches

roslaunch:
- Fixed roslaunch_check: <<Ticket(ros 3903)>>
- roslaunch outputs shell command that failed: <<Ticket(ros 3092)>>
roslisp: fixes for rospack location
log4cxx: improved logic to find log4cxx under mingw <<Ticket(ros 3896)>>
rospy:
- connection loop needs to poll as to whether publisher is still a publisher <<Ticket(ros 3900)>>
- change logger of transportiniterror as these errors are generally due to the subscriber
- prevent rospy.Timer to fire once more after calling shutdown
rosmsg: fix regression for search_path based on genmsg updates

message_filters: fixed tests that weren't running correctly
<<Ticket(ros 3755)>>
<<Ticket(ros 3888)>>
<<Ticket(ros 3889)>>
<<Ticket(ros 3890)>>
rostest: fixed output handling
rospy:
- Fixed bad error message in rospy, thanks rdiankov <<Ticket(ros 3885)>>
- Fixed /clock to use queue size of 1
- No longer store dead connection state as it is a potential memory leak

<<Ticket(ros 3833)>>
roscpp: fixed improper locking in TimerManager::schedule() <<Ticket(ros 3757)>>
roscpp: removed unnecessary lock in SubscriptionQueue::clear() which might result in a deadlock <<Ticket(ros 3823)>>

Stable release
Changes since 1.7.14
- rospy: patch to no longer allow multiple connections within a topic to the same endpoint
- roscpp: patch to fix deadlock with recursive timer creation/deletion <<Ticket(ros 3867)>>